Here come the New York Yankees.
Seriously, they're in this thing.
That seemed like an absurd notion when the Yankees went into full-blown sell mode just before the Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline, jettisoning veteran pieces such as relievers Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller and outfielder Carlos Beltran. New York was building for the future, the narrative went, waving a white flag and restocking its farm system.
The farm system part was true. After their flurry of late-July deals, the Yankees own the richest stash of minor league talent in either ...

Fact: New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez went 3-for-5 on Friday, and hit his 10th home run of the season. Joe DiMaggio (39) is the only Yankee ever to have more hits through his first 22 career games than Sanchez (31).
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New York Yankees rookie Gary Sanchez became the third-fastest player in Major League Baseball history to hit 10 career home runs with a two-run shot in the bottom of the fifth inning during Friday night's game against the Baltimore Orioles.
With the Yankees already leading 10-1, Sanchez took a 1-0 pitch from Vance Worley and deposited it into the left field seats:
It was the rookie's 84th plate appearance of the season and 86th of his career.
Friday night was also just his 20th big league game of the season and 22nd of ...

New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez has been a revelation. That statement is supported by a heap of numbers, but let's start with a single figure: two.
That's how many times Sanchez—a 23-year-old rookie with fewer than 100 big league plate appearances to his name—was intentionally walked Wednesday.
He also rapped two hits, including a double and a home run, in the Yankees' 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners. He's now hitting .389 for the year with a 1.297 OPS.
Here's the no-doubt homer, courtesy of the YES Network:
We're in small-sample land, obviously. ...

The New York Yankees lost Monday’s game against the Seattle Mariners, 7-5, but not before rookie catcher Gary Sanchez made history.
Sanchez drilled a solo home run in the first inning and a two-run shot in the sixth to give him eight for the season. According to Andrew Marchand of ESPN.com, Sanchez’s eight homers in his first 19 games have made him “the first player in the franchise’s history to hit so many long balls so quickly.”
The Yankees newcomer has tasted success early in his big league career. Earlier Monday, the ...

The road to recovery for New York Yankees pitcher Nathan Eovaldi has begun after he underwent surgery on his right arm.
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Eovaldi Has Tommy John Surgery
Friday, Aug. 19
Per Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees announced Eovaldi had Tommy John surgery and underwent a procedure to repair his right flexor tendon.
The 26-year-old Eovaldi last pitched on Aug. 10 against the Boston Red Sox, lasting just one inning in a start before experiencing elbow discomfort. He was placed on the disabled list almost immediately before it was later announced ...

The New York Yankees waved the white flag at the trade deadline. They shifted into sell mode, abandoned all hope of making the playoffs this season and trained their gaze squarely on the future.
Yeah...about that.
The future is indeed bright in the Bronx. After all their wheeling and dealing, the Yankees boast the No. 1 farm system in baseball, per Bleacher Report's Joel Reuter. And with a Brink's truck of expiring contracts coming off the books, they should have ample cash to burn in the potentially loaded 2018-19 free-agent class.
But reports ...

One day after getting a king's send-off at Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez is no longer a New York Yankees player.
Per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com, the Yankees released Rodriguez prior to Saturday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
The move was expected and part of a plan New York put in place when Rodriguez and the team announced Friday would be his final game.
On Sunday, Hoch reported Rodriguez would play his last game for the Yankees and then be unconditionally released before serving as a special advisor through Dec. 31, 2017.
Included in ...

NEW YORK — With most guys, the retirement announcement comes before the ceremony.
No, not with most guys. With everyone.
Everyone but Alex Rodriguez.
It's always complicated with him, so of course it was complicated on the night that should mark the end of a brilliant if also monumentally flawed career. Of course the skies roared with thunder Friday, just as Yankee Stadium public address announcer Paul Olden said, "Alex, you've spent 12 of your 22 seasons with the Yankees."
"It was certainly, like, biblical," Rodriguez himself said later. "You can't make that up. I ...

There's not a lot of joy to be derived from the New York Yankees' present.
Their 58-56 record is far from an Atlanta Braves-level disaster, but it marks the fourth year in a row they've been mired in mediocrity. And for the first time in a long time, they've accepted they need to make things worse to get better. When New York moved Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller and Carlos Beltran at the August 1 trade deadline, its first rebuild in over two decades was on.
There is, however, some joy to be derived from ...